Australian Curriculum Teaching Resources

ACHASSK085

Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrivalElaborationsinvestigating reasons for the First Fleet journey, including an examination of the wide range of crimes punishable by transportation, and looking at the group...

Stories of the First Fleet, including reasons for the journey, who travelled to Australia, and their experiences following arrival

Elaborations

investigating reasons for the First Fleet journey, including an examination of the wide range of crimes punishable by transportation, and looking at the groups who were transported (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)

investigating attitudes to the poor, the treatment of prisoners at that time, and the social standing of those who travelled to Australia on the First Fleet, including families, children and convict guards (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding)

investigating daily life in the Botany Bay penal settlement and challenges experienced by the people there and how they were managed (Skills: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking)